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[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Interesting, I thought there wasn’t connectors for the front panel

[–] soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Could be wireless. That would also explain the "battery" mentioned in the poll on shitter.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 8 points 20 hours ago

Batteries on a device that needs wall power?

Well I guess I've seen things this dumb already so maybe

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That’d require charging it though

[–] soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I could imagine that it would need to be connected to a USB charger for that...

(I hope they make the suggested version with the eInk display. That way the image would persist even if the power runs out.)

[–] CMahaff@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Maybe there's a spare USB header inside on the board?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

There aren't, to my knowledge, but I'm sure you could grab it and data from somewhere on the board.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

It won’t look as clean as shown in the pictures then

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

It wouldn't be the first product that started advertising the concept art as the finished product.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 8 points 22 hours ago
[–] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's not hard to hide wires behind that big screen, even if you have to drill a little hole, no big deal.

Are you picturing a big USB or HDMI cable sticking out the side?

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 18 hours ago

I meant you could get power/data from inside.

[–] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Gotcha, yeah just 4 little wires, easy to make a custom connection or small cable and hide it away

[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

As long as there's some kind of power available inside the machine (e.g. an extra SATA power connector) it can just use that and wifi.

I suspect that the Valve engineers weren't so short sighted though and probably have all the usual headers/connectors inside the thing that a normal PC would have. For example, a USB 3 header (the kind usually used for front-panel USB ports).

If anything, the device probably has at least one extra M.2 connector and a 1x or 4x PCI express connector. With those, anything is possible.

Even if the only power available is the CPU fan header you can always just use a splitter and pull power out of that.